All in all it’s been a good (and much needed) weekend. Friday was spent playing Frisbee and card games with friends. Nothing out of the ordinary, but always a good time. Saturday morning I got up at the ungodly hour of 7:00 a.m. so I could volunteer with a group of people for Habitat for Humanity. If you’ve never heard of them before, Habitat is an organization of volunteers who build affordable housing for people who are going through difficult times. I know about as much about construction as the next guy, probably even less, but I have a grandpa who is a contractor and I’ve spent a couple summers helping him work. I was always too young to ever do anything really specific, so mostly I was just a “go-for”, meaning I carried a lot of heavy stuff, got whatever tools my grandpa needed, and helped clean up afterwards. But I would always watch him to see what he was doing (when I wasn’t climbing all over the roof of whatever house he was working on). So although I really didn’t know what I was doing, I was determined that I was going to help out and be useful. So I started doing whatever needed to be done. I cut some wood with a skill saw (me with power tools: run for the hills!), I hammered up a lot of sheet wood, helped build a few wall frames and put them up, measured some stuff, and whatever else came up. I was really pleased with how much I ended up getting done. I guess I even fooled a few other people, because some of the other workers asked me for my opinion on what we should do a couple times. Like I actually had a clue what I was doing! I was impressed by the number of people that came out as well. We had people of all ages helping out. It’s really cool to sit back and see what people can accomplish when they work together, and we really got a lot done while we were out there. I had an awesome time. I may go back again if I get the chance.

In other news, my “I got lost” story is about 2/3 of the way written. It seems like whenever I think I’ve got everything written out I remember something that I forgot to put in. I missed my Saturday deadline, thanks to the usual craziness and a history paper, but I still got a lot written down. I’m still trying to decide whether or not I want to post it here. I guess we’ll see later.

Alright, I have to study for a biopsych test now.